2014年12月6日SAT东亚作文题目，希望对各位考生的备考有所帮助，祝每位烤鸭考试顺利，都能取得好成绩!
2014年12月6日东亚作文题目
Assignment: Can people who are not famous be better role models than people who are famous?
2014年12月6日东亚作文题目解析
本题题意直白，普通人是否可以比名人起更好的榜样作用，审题上难度不大，正反都可以写，同学们可以结合自己心中的榜样人物选择立场。写名人榜样作用大的同学可以在准备的素材中找出两个名人的例子，写他们哪些优秀品质激励了你。如果刚好有一位普通人的榜样则可以写那位榜样对自己的激励作用，以自己的个人经历作，细节翔实即可。
2014年12月6日东亚作文范文一:
Famous people provide us with excellent role models. We admire athletes such as Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant for their discipline and resilience; we look up to artists such as Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh for their ruthless devotion to their artistic visions. These famous people demonstrated strengths worthy to be respected and emulated by all. However, famous people are also far away from us. We are often so in awe of their titles and achievements that we no longer regard them as ordinary humans like we are, thus unable to relate to their stories.In comparison, achievements of people close to us hit us with a much more resounding impact.
They teach us the simple truth that extraordinary deeds are accomplished by ordinary people like you and me who daily combats our weaknesses. More often than not, ordinary people can be better role models than famous people.
For example, I look up to my father’s friend Linda as my role model. Linda is a professor of English in a renowned university in China. After earning a PhD in America, she returned to China to teach creative writing in university. As a member of a university faculty, she was under great pressure to public academic works to advance in position. After finding an initial publisher, she began a two-year long odyssey to complete her book on creative writing. However, the publisher was unhappy with her vision of the book’s structure; they required significant change. Initially Linda tried to meet their demands; little by little, Linda feltlosing sight of the book she wanted to write. She would rather not publish than compromising her message for the sake of publication. Yet she may lose her current teaching position for not bringing in enough publication. Prepared to lose her job, she cancelled the contract with the publisher. Luckily she did not lose her job, yet she was unable to qualify for any promotion until three years later she found another publisher who was willing to publish her book as it was. Those three years I watched Linda going about her life without being held back by worries of the book. Every time I visit her, she always showered me with smile and delight. There were times she shared her frustration about her book, her resentment of the rigid system, and her joy when there were progress with a new publisher. Yet every day, she left her worries behind, focused on what she love, and gave all she could give for today in preparing lessons and. grading students’ works. She volunteered hours each week in the drama club she oversees, and made friends with many of her students. It was on her that I saw the kind of person I wanted to be: faithful to her vision, passionate about her work, patiently yet optimistically waiting till her efforts are rewarded.
From an outsider’s view, you may think Linda’s life is perfect for what she has achieved at a fairly young age: a PhD, the job of professor in a prestigious university, a book herself authored. Yet watching her close by, I was able to see her daily struggles with worry, uncertainty, and pressure like everyone else. More importantly, she decides to each day live and giveall she can as the imperfect person she is in this imperfect life. As a role model, Linda has given me more inspiration than any celebrity or public figure. She has shown me that extraordinary achievements like hers are achieved by someone I know, someone ordinary and vulnerable.
It is true that we can hold famous people as distant role models. However, when we have someone we genuinely admire nearby—a family member, a teacher, a friend, witnessing them struggling and defeating their problems with our own eyes will strike our souls and change our lives. Ordinary people can be better role models than famous people.
2014年12月6日东亚作文范文二:
The world is suffused with the propagation and idolization of the famous people, their spirit and deed are held as role models that deserve to be passed down from generation to generation, still, the lopsided emphasis on the effect the ‘heroes’ cast on the society fails to take the commoner’s contribution and stimulation into account, as for me, chances are high for the common ones to become the paragon.
The virtue can be easier to comprehend and emulate when possessed by our acquaintance or the commoner just like us. For instance, once there was an exposure of an old man by the name of BaiFangli, determining to give financial support for several homeless children, selflessly and perseveringly collected garbage for 8 years in a row and donated all his savings (300,000rmb) to the charity group named ‘Hope Project’, the whole story touched the very bottom of people’s heart and the public are motivated to follow the old man’s altruistic spirit. It is just because of the intrinsic empathy that people are sensible to the philanthropic deed, especially by the ordinary, since the public are prone to cast doubt on or simply take for granted if the charity is done by the celebrities.
To see a larger picture, in China, there are tens of thousands of graduates flocking to the poverty-stricken area to support the education, harboringthe dream of making a difference to the whole society via the dissemination of the seeds of hope, the youth manage to balance the disparity between the prosperous area and the deprived one, thus enhancing the civilization of the whole society. Proud to say, my sister is among the spate of volunteers, graduated from NY University, she came back to her hometown to be a teacher with a meager month salary, her parents, rather than unsupportive, are quite proud of their daughter, when asked about the reason of her choice, she gave me a big smile and told me that it is her dream to make the world a better place, and the money and career prospect do not bother her at all. I was greatly inspired and motivated by her words and subsequently, I applied for the volunteering work in our community without a second thought. Truth be told, despite of all the numerous anecdote of the heroes or celebrities I heard or read, I find myself reluctant to make a move to catch on, it is just the ‘lovely’ daily acquaintances who infuses fresh blood into our veins.
The exemplifications of the ordinary ones being inspiring and stimulating are bountiful in the film sphere, Forrest Gump, who inspires all of the then Americans to follow his running path, Murphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, who taught all the psychos to defy the suppression of the authority to embrace freedom as they deserve, Andy in The Shawshank Redemption, who struck his fellow prisoners as ‘a bird that cannot be confined in the cage’, as well as brought hope to the prison, etc. All the protagonists are portrayed as commoners, even lower than the standard of being normal, however, it is them that made a difference and truly deserved to be hailed as the role models.
